Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accepting the result of a deliberate experiment. At the time I allowed my former subscription to lapse I had become a commuter with the inevitable necessity of spending forty-five minutes in the morning and evening reading the newspaper. I thought, and not unreasonably, that by this constant pursuit of the daily news, incident by incident, I would be able to dispense with the summary of news which TIME so capably provides...
...obvious and fully justifiable criticism of such a program is that it is superficial. Psychologists can prove to their own satisfaction that a man's intelligence quota, his ability to deal with facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining...
...speaker would doubtless approve, and that was the tradition of frequent change. We certainly have that tradition here, for we have been continually making experiments, and we hope wise ones. We have, indeed, some reason to suppose so, because they are being made in a definite direction with a constant object. That object, so far as the students are concerned, is to provoke an ambition and cultivate a habit leading to self-education,--the only education that is later self-starting and self -propelling. For this purpose another departure has now been made, a some what surprising one, yet designed...
...indirect rule is to improve culture, and to raise the estate of the arts. Culture is accumulative," the Count remarked, "and women are an accumulative lot. Men, on the other hand, are restless, and inclined to discard what they have used for a time, and when there is such constant replacement there cannot be culture in the real sense...
...enhance an already established reputation. It is an extremely creditable enhancement, however, and will suffer, and then slightly, only when compared with its predecessor. It fulfils the promise of "The Time Of Man" much more successfully than Miss Kennedy's "Red Sky At Morning" fulfils the splendor of "The Constant Nymph...